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Touchpad multi-touch not working in Fedora 34
by super cow 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hello, I have an HP TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC. I'm running Fedora 34, with Gnome running Wayland, and I can't get the gestures to work. Well, not just the gestures, but the multi-touch feature itself on my touchpad. It could be a hardware limitation, but I don't think that it is. Any feedback would be helpful. Here are some terminal outputs: $ dmesg | grep -i touchpad [ 3.757914] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa04711/0xa00000/0x0/0x0, board id: 0, fw id: 436772 [ 3.826925] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6 $ sudo libinput list-devices Device: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Kernel: /dev/input/event7 Group: 9 Seat: seat0, default Size: 51x23mm Capabilities: pointer Tap-to-click: disabled Tap-and-drag: enabled Tap drag lock: disabled Left-handed: disabled Nat.scrolling: disabled Middle emulation: n/a Calibration: n/a Scroll methods: *edge Click methods: none Disable-w-typing: enabled Accel profiles: flat *adaptive Rotation: n/a

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Identifying what is accessing a USB device.
by Patrick O'Callaghan 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which can power up and down the drives as needed. I have a systemd automount unit that correctly powers up the dock when accessed, then mounts the drives (thanks Ed). After an idle time, automount unmounts the drives. A script detects when this happens and powers them down ... *at which point they immediately power up again, and remain up until I intervene manually, even though they are unmounted*. This never happens if I run the script directly from the command line (i.e. the drives power down and stay down). Clearly the docking unit isn't just doing this flakily on its own. Something is making it happen, and I've no idea how to discover what it is except that it seems to be correlated with systemd in some way. All of the above is 100% reproducible. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas. poc

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Blue Griffon
by ToddAndMargo 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Hi All, Any sign of RPM's for Blue Griffon? If not, how about a good substitute? Many thanks, -T

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Podman community meeting April 6, 2021 8:00 p.m. Eastern (UTC-4)
by Daniel Walsh 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Podman community meeting tomorrow at a friendlier time for people on the other side of the planet. Sorry Europe. April 6, 2021 8:00 p.m. Eastern (UTC-4) https://podman.io/community/meeting/agenda/

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Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)
by lejeczek 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Hi guys, Just wanted to share what a friend of mine has just experienced, which just adds & matches my experience - you can take it as warning in a way, if you too jumped on that bandwagon of (fake) Lenovo euphoria towards support, in generic terms, for Linux by the company - which is BAD across the board. I'm experiencing sleep/resume issue with my Lenovo two laptops, same problem my friend sees, only he did file a support request to Lenovo. So if you still have any hopes, then have no doubts, here is Lenovo/IBM's replay: "..Linux operating systems are out of our scope, as we support only Windows. Please contact Ubuntu support to resolve the problem.." In that reply you will find an insult added to the injury if you read closely - IBM who does (some)support for Lenovo who, not that very but still recently purchased RedHat. My next laptop purchase I'll make extra effort to find some of those smaller manufacturer who hopefully are genuine Linux supporters, might as well give them a chance. best wishes, L.

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Apostrophe changed to Acute-Accent
by Jorge Fábregas 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Hi everyone, After updating F33 this afternoon my "apostrophe" (U+0027) has been changed to "acute-accent" (U+00B4). This is in the "US, Intl, with dead-keys" keyboard layout which I've used all my life (first time I see this behavior). I've identified the gtk3- 3.24.28-1.fc33 update as the root of the problem. If I revert to the previous version all fine. I'm opening a bug but wondered if anyone knew about this? Thanks, Jorge

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Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink
by Frederic Muller 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Hi! I bought without researching a (cheap) Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock hoping to connect one extra monitor to my laptop. It turns out that video through USB is not part of the standards and thus proprietary. There is luckily a package available here: https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm Still it doesn't work. I'm getting this: systemctl status displaylink.service displaylink.service - DisplayLink Manager Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service; static) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-04-02> Process: 3954 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdi (code=exited, status=1/FAILU> CPU: 4m and this: sbin/modprobe evdi modprobe: FATAL: Module evdi not found in directory /lib/modules/5.11.10-200.fc33.x86_64 Has anyone any experience on the topic or should I just ask on their github project? Thank you. Fred

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Fwd: Abysmal VM performance even with btrfs+nodatacow
by Richard Shaw 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

I just setup a Windows 10 to do some debugging of a mingw project. Gnome Boxes made the process very simple but the performance is horrendous. Even after the following I still wouldn't consider it usable. # chattr +C ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images # cd ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images # mv win10 ../ # cat ../win10 win10 $ lsattr ---------------C---- ./win10 Here's a screenshot showing windows process manager with < 1MB transfer rates but 100% disk busy while installing MinGW w64 in windows, which is not a huge amount of data... https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m0p3lptbqwd7lp/Screenshot%20from%202021-04-03%20… Any tips? Or do I just need to buy a cheap SSD and format it EXT4 just for virtual machine images? Thanks, Richard

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Dual monitor issue.
by Erik P. Olsen 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

I have an old 20" monitor model Flatron L2000CP that I want to connect to my T580 laptop. The monitor came with both VGA and DVI cables and the T580 "only" has HDMI. I therefore bought an HDMI to VGA adaptor and have established an HDMI to VGA connection to the monitor. The connection works and I can switch to all four connection types but one tiny but decisive problem makes the dual monitor unuseable: the display on the Flatron screen is not positioned correctly. It is shifted ½ an inch off the screen on the left side and on the right side there is likewise ½ an inch of unused area. Any advise on how I can overcome this issue is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark Fedora 33/64 bit xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.3 Bacula 9.6.5

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mdadm -> BTRFS conversion
by Patrick O'Callaghan 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

I currently have a pair of external drives configured as ext4 with RAID1 using mdadm, and mainly used for backup. My / and /home filesystems are now BTRFS so I'm looking at converting the external drives to BTRFS with RAID1. My main reason is to take advantage of BTRFS checksumming as a guard against bitrot, but I'd also like the flexibility of setting up subvolumes with different properties (the disks are currently 90% empty). Any thoughts on this? What would be the simplest conversion strategy if I go ahead? poc

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